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Showing posts with label supplements. Show all posts
Monday, March 16, 2015
Healthy Gut Microbiota Means No Supplements No Cleanses No Drugs No Processed Foods
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A healthy, functional gut microbiota (bacteria and fungi) supplies all of the vitamins needed, stimulates the development of a balanced immune system and promotes vitality. If you feed and maintain the diversity of the pounds of bacteria in your gut, you will be healthy. If you listen to the medical and food industries, you will be sick, i.e. a good patient/consumer.Supplements Compensate for Deficiencies/Sickness
The key to this discussion is the functions of the healthy communities of bacteria and fungi called the gut microbiota. These pounds of bacteria produce all of the vitamins that your body needs, and spiking your diet with multivitamins may disrupt your microbiota, because vitamins are actually the chemical signals used for communications between bacteria in biofilms. Numerous studies have shown that daily multivitamins are not beneficial, so if you see extra vitamins on the ingredients label, try some whole foods instead. If, however, you have been exposed to antibiotics or other medications, since most have potent antibiotic activities, then your gut bacteria may not be producing vitamins normally, and you may need to supplement. Vitamin deficiencies are a symptom of gut dysbiosis, damaged gut microbiota.
Vitamin D is a Steroid Hormone Produced from Cholesterol in Skin by Sunlight
Most people know that sunlight striking skin produces vitamin D, but they still think that they can get a significant amount of vitamin D from their diet. The confusion comes from the fact that vitamin D is a major hormone that influences many body systems including bone production and immunity. So in the absence of skin production of vitamin D, the low amounts added to milk are sufficient to prevent deficiency/rickets. However, chronic inflammation can block solar production of vitamin D, so that even individuals near the equator and basking daily still remain deficient. Vitamin D deficiency may also, insidiously, be a major source of chronic inflammation. Thus, most individuals treated for deficiency with supplemental vitamin D3, do not reach high enough levels to suppress chronic inflammation and restart solar production, so they remain deficient. Chronic inflammation is a symptom of vitamin D deficiency.
Bowel Cleanses Damage Gut Microbiota
The bowels are a long tubelike conveyance and it takes food about a day to travel from table to toilet. In the colon, all of the plant polysaccharide fibers remaining after removal of sugar, starch, fat and protein, are digested by enzymes of the microbiota and converted into more bacteria and short chain fatty acids that feed the colon tissue. There is nothing toxic left behind in the colon. Protein from meat is readily digested in the stomach and the first part of the small intestines. Plant materials cannot be digested without the help of a complex array of hundreds of enzymes produced by gut bacteria. Food intolerances are caused by the loss of particular bacterial species needed for complete digestion of one type of plant fiber. The bacteria form the stools, and insufficient healthy bowel bacteria, normally fed by the fiber, is the cause of constipation. Clearly, flushing out bacteria with a "cleanse" is unhealthy and counterproductive. There is nothing in the colon but gut bacteria and fiber to feed the bacteria. Those bacteria are needed for vitamin production, normal development of the immune system and normal stools. A cleanse merely removes healthy gut bacteria and leads to constipation or replacement by pathogens.
Processing Removes Prebiotic Fiber from Food and Starves Gut Microbiota
Diverse and complex plant polysaccharides, e.g. pectin, arabinogalactan, various glucans and fructans, are systematically digested by hundreds of different bacterial enzymes of the healthy gut microbiota. The sugars that result are eventually converted into short chain fatty acids, such as butyrate, that feed the cells lining the colon. The plant polysaccharides that feed gut bacteria are called prebiotics. Unfortunately, prebiotics are removed during food processing to enhance ease of preparation and palatability. The result of decreased dietary prebiotics is selective starvation and removal of bacterial species needed for the development of the immune system, and autoimmune diseases.
Most Medicines Have Substantial Antibiotic Activity and Damage Gut Microbiota
It is not surprising that antibiotics damage the bacteria in the gut. What most people don’t realize is that most pharmaceuticals/medicines are developed from the natural antibiotics of plants, phytoalexins. Numerous recent studies have demonstrated most common medicines, e.g. statins, NSAID, antidepressants, etc. have substantial antibiotic activity and damage gut bacteria. Surgeons commonly suggest that patients eat yogurt to help repair their gut micro biomes after operations and antibiotics, but they don’t tell them how to fix their gut and immune system as they take medications for the rest of their lives. The permanently damaged gut just causes further deterioration of the immune system and health.
Damaged Gut Microbiotas/Immune Systems Can Be Fixed
I have several other posts on repair of gut microbiota.
Examination of antimicrobial activity of selected non-antibiotic medicinal preparations.
Kruszewska H1, Zareba T, Tyski S. Acta Pol Pharm. 2012. 69(6):1368-71.
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Monday, March 9, 2015
3 Top Supplements for Radiation Detox
Supplementing any kind of diet or food lifestyle in this current age is an absolute must when it comes to eliminating radiation. Raw foods can do a lot for the human physiology and more potent superfoods and supplements can also massively impact us to shift radiation from the cells.
I started awakening to raw in 2009 when I read the book Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnoin which was mainly about the positive aspects of becoming vegan. I became vegan for a while but was still working out the whole diet thing which would suit me. I must say, I most often will just pick things to suit my mood. Thats no problem for me anyway as it is still always vegetarian and sometimes vegan. Therefore, my health is pretty much awesome most of the time.
Supplementing any diet lifestyle can help the cells detox and anyone who doesnt supplement who is promoting vegan seriously needs to question why because organic is only one small strand in a whole bigger picture of health that needs to be addressed.
After various nuclear distasters worldwide, radiation is a massive issue. It is everywhere, it covers everything and it needs to be cleaned up. We cannot really see this radiation physically so we dont know the impact on the human unless it manifests itself physically.
We need to address the whole body not just feeding ourselves fruits and vegetables but thinking about the very cells that are absorbing everything from our environment including food.
3 Top Supplements for Radiation Detox
I have only just started experimenting with Iodine most recently and have still yet to experience great results, however I can comment that these 3 supplements are very powerful and need to be used with caution and great care. I am no health expert, I just do my research and decide to do whats best for me.
Iodine

[ MASS NOUN]
Chlorella


Chlorella helps the body detox from heavy metals.
[ MASS NOUN] BiologyA common single-celled green alga of both terrestrial and aquatic habitats, responsible for turning stagnant water an opaque green.
Bush Flower Essences Electro essence

"Electro Essence reduced radiation levels in children affected by the Chernobyl disaster by 43% in comparison with a control group who had only 3.5% reduction*." LINK
I have taken the Bush Flower Electro essence (at least two courses lasting two weeks in length). I must say this essence has really helped me to wake up in the morning. The essences are very subtle and work on a vibrational level, so you may be expecting some massive physical change, however, for me it has been subtle and more on a feeling level - more energy; feeling more at ease; feeling overall better in general.
We have probably all been subjected to some radiation directly - especially if you have had an x-ray for a broken bone, where the radiation is intensified. This essence has really helped me to release this radiation - how do I know? I feel more energetic in general.
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I started awakening to raw in 2009 when I read the book Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnoin which was mainly about the positive aspects of becoming vegan. I became vegan for a while but was still working out the whole diet thing which would suit me. I must say, I most often will just pick things to suit my mood. Thats no problem for me anyway as it is still always vegetarian and sometimes vegan. Therefore, my health is pretty much awesome most of the time.
Supplementing any diet lifestyle can help the cells detox and anyone who doesnt supplement who is promoting vegan seriously needs to question why because organic is only one small strand in a whole bigger picture of health that needs to be addressed.
After various nuclear distasters worldwide, radiation is a massive issue. It is everywhere, it covers everything and it needs to be cleaned up. We cannot really see this radiation physically so we dont know the impact on the human unless it manifests itself physically.
We need to address the whole body not just feeding ourselves fruits and vegetables but thinking about the very cells that are absorbing everything from our environment including food.
3 Top Supplements for Radiation Detox
I have only just started experimenting with Iodine most recently and have still yet to experience great results, however I can comment that these 3 supplements are very powerful and need to be used with caution and great care. I am no health expert, I just do my research and decide to do whats best for me.
Iodine

Ancient Purity - "Iodine is found in every organ of the body and is essential for humans. Almost all of us are low on iodine. Low iodine levels are linked to many health problems. Iodine is not only good for health, it’s vital. In 1880, a French physician named Jacques Lugol originated a solution which contains 5% of elemental Iodine in a 10% solution of Potassium Iodide. It has been used steadily ever since. Researchers are warning iodine deficiency could be becoming endemic in the UK "A study involving more than 700 teenage girls at 9 UK centers found more that two-thirds had a deficiency. Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of preventable mental impairment worldwide, affecting a third of the worlds population."
iodine
Line breaks: iod¦inePronunciation: /ˈʌɪədiːn
, -ʌɪn, -ɪn/
Definition of iodine in English:
NOUN
1The chemical element of atomic number 53, a non-metallic element forming black crystals and a violet vapour. (Symbol: I)
EXAMPLE SENTENCES
1.1A solution of iodine in alcohol, used as a mild antiseptic.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES
A member of the halogen group, iodine occurs chiefly as salts in seawater and brines. As aconstituent of thyroid hormones it is required in small amounts in the body, and deficiency canlead to goitre
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Chlorella

The great thing about Chlorella is that it is widely available and easy to take. It digests easily and makes you feel better instantaneously. You can buy it in most health stores.

Chlorella helps the body detox from heavy metals.
chlorella
Definition of chlorella in English:
NOUN
- Genus Chlorella, division Chlorophyta (or phylum Chlorophyta, kingdom Protista)
EXAMPLE SENTENCESOrigin
modern Latin, diminutive of Greek khlōros green.
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Bush Flower Essences Electro essence

"Electro Essence reduced radiation levels in children affected by the Chernobyl disaster by 43% in comparison with a control group who had only 3.5% reduction*." LINK
I have taken the Bush Flower Electro essence (at least two courses lasting two weeks in length). I must say this essence has really helped me to wake up in the morning. The essences are very subtle and work on a vibrational level, so you may be expecting some massive physical change, however, for me it has been subtle and more on a feeling level - more energy; feeling more at ease; feeling overall better in general.
We have probably all been subjected to some radiation directly - especially if you have had an x-ray for a broken bone, where the radiation is intensified. This essence has really helped me to release this radiation - how do I know? I feel more energetic in general.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Does Your Pre Workout Inhibit Fat Loss Study Shows Nitrate Supplements Decrease Metabolic Rate By 4 2
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| If you want other to see your pump, you got to be ripped. If not, why care about reductions in BMR? |
The bad thing: Arginine didnt work. The good thing: This means it didnt decrease your BMR, either
Against that background its quite astonishing that arginine and citrulline based pre-workout products have dominated the top-seller lists of the big supplement vendors for decades. A fact thats probably partly due to other potential benefits of these amino acids, of which one - you as a SuppVersity reader know that - could be fat loss | learn more about the potential fat loss effects.
On a side note: I am pretty sure the fact that the other potential benefit is an increase in sexual stamina didnt hamper the sales either (Neuzillet, 2013; Hotta. 2014 ;-)
With more and more people openly declaring that they would no longer waste money on "good tasting, but expensive and disfunctional products", they industry was yet pressed to develop alternatives. Luckily, our body has two options it can chose from, when producing nitric oxide.Fortunately, the industry has developed better alternatives...?
You know option #1, the arginine ➲ nitric oxide pathway, and - with all the hype and hyperbole that surrounded the introduction of the first nitrate supplements - I am pretty sure, you know the other one as well, the nitrate-nitrite ➲ nitric oxide pathway
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| Figure 1: The Arginine- and the Nitrate-Nitrite - NO pathway are the yin and yan of nitric oxide production (Lundberg. 2008). |
With the "yan", i.e. the nitrate-nitrite ➲ nitric oxide pathway being a relatively "new kid on the NO block", that recycles (=reduces) inorganic anions nitrate and nitrite to form bioactive NO in blood and tissues during physiological hypoxia.
It goes without saying that there is a bottle neck to this process as well, but the rate limiting availablility of oxygen which hampers the argine-based NO generation by NOS becomes limited as oxygen levels fall is actually a signal for the nitrate–nitrite ➲ nitric oxide to really kick in.
There is more yin and yan, here
If you take a closer look at the results of a study in the America Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Figure 2), you will yet have to realize that there is "more yin and yan", here than youd probably hope for. According to the data scientists from the venerable Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, present in their paper, "[d]ietary inorganic nitrate reduces the RMR." (Larsen. 2014)
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| Figure 2: VO2 consumption (marker of fatty acid oxidation) and basal metabolic rate (BMR) relative to means (left), thyroid hormone (T3, T4) levels after 3-d dietary intervention with sodium nitrate (Larsen. 2014) |
Interestingly, these effects were not - as you may have been speculated - brought about by changes in thyroid hormone status. And the subjects insulin sensitivity, glucose uptake, plasma concentration of isoprostanes, as well as their total antioxidant capacity were unaffected, as well.
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| Suppversity Suggested Read: " The Beat Your Personal Bests W/ Beets 101: How Much? 8.4 mmol Nitrate ~400-1300g Beets! When? 2.5h Pre Workout!" | read more |
The way things are, I will refrain from ranting and rather suggest you simply skip the supps and consume the spinach, beetroot, lettuce and other high nitrate veggies right away. Most of the human studies which support the ergogenic potential of nitrates have been conducted with beetroot juice instead of capped sodium-nitrate.
And lets be honest, the weight loss advantage of having green and not so green nitrate containing vegetables in your is eventually beyond doubt. So, if there was a similar reduction in RMR from your daily serving of spinach, you can be more or less certain that it was compensated by the beneficial weight loss effects of the whole spectrum of nutrients thats present in this edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthacea.
- Bailey, Stephen J., et al. "Dietary nitrate supplementation reduces the O2 cost of low-intensity exercise and enhances tolerance to high-intensity exercise in humans." Journal of Applied Physiology 107.4 (2009): 1144-1155.
- Hotta, Yuji, et al. "Oral l‐citrulline supplementation improves erectile function and penile structure in castrated rats." International Journal of Urology (2014).
- Larsen, Filip J., et al. "Dietary inorganic nitrate improves mitochondrial efficiency in humans." Cell metabolism 13.2 (2011): 149-159.
- Lundberg, Jon O., Eddie Weitzberg, and Mark T. Gladwin. "The nitrate–nitrite–nitric oxide pathway in physiology and therapeutics." Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 7.2 (2008): 156-167.
- Neuzillet, Y., et al. "A randomized, double‐blind, crossover, placebo‐controlled comparative clinical trial of arginine aspartate plus adenosine monophosphate for the intermittent treatment of male erectile dysfunction." Andrology 1.2 (2013): 223-228.
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